the context of stock and gold arbitrage.” With an uncanny mix of mordant humor and
compassion, Lindsay Hill”s fifth book of poems exposes the bad trades our culture thrives on.
“Lindsay Hill has written the epic of a society based on deferred payment and delayed
gratification. Contango traces our compromised relation to utopia, but in its often hilarious
juxtapositions of deadpan clauses and phrases, the poem offers an alternative future in which to
say ”this is true” becomes the truth.” Michael Davidson